mayzaboo.com

I haven’t posted in a while, so I thought I would take some time while Jordan’s napping to give the update. She’s been sleeping really well now for a while. She takes a 2-3 hour nap every day, and has been sleeping roughly from 8pm-7am without waking up at all. Then she’s content to cuddle/play with us in bed for another hour or so before she wants to get up and eat breakfast. It’s been really nice to be able to get sleep all night again. I still wake up, but at least I don’t have to go into her room. And she’s been great about falling asleep on her own in her crib, too. I lay her down on her pillow, and cover her with a blanket, kiss her on the head, and she falls asleep on her own. I sometimes hear her playing, but lately she’s been silent when I leave the room. Also a few nights ago she said “I love you” for the first time. It was more like “love oo” but I knew what she was saying. It’s really cute. She’s also been using the word “too” a lot. She’ll sit down on the balance beam at Gymboree then point to the spot next to her and say “mama, too?” meaning she wants me to sit down with her. She’s getting pretty good at 2-3 word sentences. We’ve also started learning ASL (American Sign Language). We started with Baby Signs a while back, but I’ve always wanted to learn ASL, so I figured why not. I got a recommendation for a video series from a friend who’s an interpreter. It arrived yesterday, and I’ve so far only gone through the first lesson. It’s pretty intense but I’m starting to understand ASL fairly quickly. The hard part will be actually learning the grammar since it’s different than English. I also bought a dvd series for children on ASL for us to watch together. I bought 2 at first, and ever since they arrived Jordan hasn’t wanted to watch hardly anything else on TV. She requests “Signing Time” almost all the time! Thankfully the rest of the series will be arriving soon, so we can stop watching the same 2 dvds over and over again. Jordan now goes around asking for “Alex and Leah” since those are the kids that “star” in the program. We video taped her the other night dancing to the theme song. And she will sit there, and sign (or at least attempt to sign) the words they’re teaching. It’s helping expand her spoken vocabulary as well. She didn’t know the word “wait” until we started watching. She’s also quickly learning opposites. Up and down, stop and go, etc. She strings them together most of the time. I’ve been working on color and shape recognition with her as well, but so far we don’t really know what the shapes are, or the colors. Today she labeled an orange scooter as “purple”, and then everything was purple. I know she’ll get it eventually.
I have a bunch of pictures to upload, so hopefully I’ll get to do that soon. Oh- and I might be co-teaching a Baby Signs class at Gymboree next month! I hope it works out. I just have to find someone to watch Jordan for an hour and a half or so. It shouldn’t be that difficult since the class is scheduled for her normal nap time. She wouldn’t even know I was gone!
Well, I hear her waking up-and she’s actually trying to sing the theme song for Signing Time! “Alex…Leeeeeaaaaaah”